| NOUN | object | brook, creek | a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) |
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| VERB | cognition | brook, digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, abide, suffer, put up | put up with something or somebody unpleasant |
| Sounds | bruh'k | |
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| Rhymes | book / Book ... yearbook: 43 rhymes with uhk... | |
| Meaning | A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river). | |
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| Synonym | creek | |
| Instances | Aegospotami, Aegospotamos | A creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey |
| Bull Run | A creek in northeastern Virginia / Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War | |
| Narrower | brooklet | A small brook |
| Broader | stream, watercourse | A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth |
| Spanish | arroyo, caleta, riachuelo | |
| Catalan | cala, rierol | |
| Meaning | put up with something or somebody unpleasant. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | Sam cannot brook Sue | |
| Synonyms | digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, abide, suffer, put up | |
| Narrower | accept, live with, swallow | Tolerate or accommodate oneself to |
| bear up | endure cheerfully | |
| pay | bear (a cost or penalty) , in recompense for some action | |
| sit out | endure to the end / end | |
| stand for, hold still for | Tolerate or bear | |
| take a joke | listen to a joke at one's own expense | |
| take lying down | Suffer without protest | |
| Broader | permit, allow, let, countenance | consent to, give permission |
| Similar to | suffer | Experience (emotional) pain |
| Spanish | aguantar, apechar, consentir, digerir, sobrellevar, soportar, sufrir, tolerar | |
| Catalan | aguantar, sofrir, suportar, tolerar | |
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